Oh, I know another good one -- old Gene Hackman sometimes looks like old Alex Trebek when they both don't have mustaches! Maybe not 2016 Hackman, but somewhere between when he stopped doing movies and now and then after Trebek shaved his awesome mustache.

It's the Tarantino Tough-guys versus the Eastwood-Bronsonians. Pretty apt given that Dirty Harry's original nemesis Scorpio was a smug and chatty murderer.

Tarantino's antiheros are the natural enemies of Harry Callahan. Even Gene Hackman's character in Unforgiven is a loud mouth to the moment he dies complaining life ain't fair, he was building a house. *BLAM*

Thanks, Bono, that connected some hero/antihero dots for me.

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I miss Gene Hackman, he was a great badass.

What the hell was that! The scene staring at around 4 minutes is straight from Behind Enemy Lines (not sure about the title) with Owen Wilson and Gene Hackman.

I love this movie. Here's the trivia section from IMDB:

* Charlotte Rampling had a role as a hitchhiker whom Kowalski met while en route, but her scenes were deleted before the US release. The scenes were re-inserted for the UK release. The DVD release includes both the US and UK versions.

* The car featured in the film is a 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T, with a 440 cubic-inch V-8, and not a 426 Hemi V-8 (as is often believed). Five white Challengers loaned from the Chrysler Corporation were used during the filming.

* The Challenger had Colorado plates: OA-5599

* There were actually four 440 Challenger R/Ts and one 383 Challenger R/T, which was an automatic with green interior. This one was used for some exterior shots and it pulled the 1967 Camaro up to speed so the Camaro could hit the bulldozers. As confirmed by property master Dennis J. Parrish, all of the cars were NOT originally white. They were just painted white for the film. During the scene where Kowalski has a flat tire, you can see green paint in the dents.

* Cameo: [David Gates] The singer/songwriter (of Bread fame) played the piano during the rousing revival in the desert with the J. Hovah singers.

* The city names on the California Highway Patrol tracking board (where Kowalski never made it) were Stockton, Oakland, Berkeley and San Francisco.

* Director Richard C. Sarafian's original choice for the role of Kowalski was Gene Hackman, but the studio, 20th Century Fox, insisted on using Barry Newman if the movie was going to be made.

* The color white was chosen for the car simply so the car would stand out against the background scenery in the movie. White was not symbolic in any way. The director says this in the DVD commentary.

* A 1967 Camaro shell (no engine) loaded with explosives was used for the final crash. You can see the "Camaro" fender nameplate upside-down in the lower left corner of the screen after the crash.

Agreed. That was a great movie too. There's something about this scene. Even Gene Hackman's opening to it in Young Frankenstein was beautiful / touching.

Bob Hoskins deserved a Best Actor Oscar for this film. The men nominated that year were Tom Hanks for Big, Gene Hackman for Mississippi Burning, Max von Sydow for Pelle the Conqueror, Edward James Olmos for Stand and Deliver and Dustin Hoffman won for Rain Man. I've seen all those, and none of them can compare to Hoskins' work in this film. His co-star didn't exist! He not only had to play his character, but convince the rest of us of the reality of the animated ones. The nominees had the advantage of playing off other actors.

We'll miss you dearly, Gene Hackman.

Fantastic stuff. Gene Hackman helped make this comedy top notch. A shame that such movies now would be protested, boycotted, spammed about, run into the proverbial ground on the endless news cycles, and generally knocked for being things they aren't by small minded people who have nothing better to do. "Blazing Saddles" was perfect for it's time.